The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
Interpretation
To uphold human rights, we must prioritize ethical medical practices.
Paul Farmer emphasizes that true respect for human rights is intrinsically linked to ethical medical practices. This perspective suggests that the health and well-being of individuals are fundamental aspects of human rights, and that addressing medical ethics is essential for promoting justice and dignity in healthcare.
In practice
During a human rights conference, one might quote this to emphasize the intersection of healthcare and rights.
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives
but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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